Trauma in Pregnancy and Obstetric Critical Care
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Objectives
- Review physiological and anatomical changes that occur during pregnancy
- Describe the early management of a pregnant trauma patient
- Understand other common reasons for ICU admission of the obstetric patient and how to manage these complications
Articles
- Guidelines for the Management of a Pregnant Trauma Patient
- Management and Outcomes of Trauma During Pregnancy
- Trauma in Pregnancy
Lecture
Quiz
Trauma in Pregnancy Quiz
Abdominal Trauma
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Objectives
- Identify patients with risk factors for penetrating or blunt abdominal trauma
- Become familiar with evaluation and management algorithms for penetrating and blunt abdominal trauma
- Become familiar with basic diagnostic testing for abdominal trauma
- Identify patients eligible for non-operative management of liver and splenic injuries
Articles
- Evaluation of abdominal trauma flow chart
- Critical Decisions in Trauma: Management of Adult Blunt Splenic Trauma
- Critical Decisions in Trauma: Operative Management of Adult Blunt Hepatic Trauma
Lecture
Quiz
Abdominal Trauma Quiz
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
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Objectives
- Define intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS).
- Describe the physiologic manifestations of IAH and ACS along with their incidence and impact on patient outcomes.
- Understand appropriate detection and management strategies for abdominal compartment syndrome.
Articles
- Management of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome: a review
- Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Lecture
Quiz
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Identification and Management of Thoracic Fluid Collections
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Objectives
- Recognize and treat pneumothorax, hemothorax, pleural effusion, empyema, and chylothorax.
- Be familiar with different management strategies for treatment of thoracic collections.
- Know options available for managing refractory pneumothorax/hemothorax/pleural effusion.
Articles
- Diagnosis of Pleural Effusion: A Systematic Approach
- Diagnostic approach to pleural effusion
- The changing management of chylothorax in the modern era
Lecture
Quiz
Thoracic Fluid Collections
Tracheobronchial Injuries
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Objectives
- Define tracheobronchial injury
- Recognize normal clinical manifestations/radiographic evidence of tracheobronchial injury
- Describe appropriate management in the patient with a tracheobronchial injury
Articles
Lecture
Quiz
Tracheobronchial
ICU Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
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Objectives
- Define Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Describe ARDS pathophysiology and its common causes
- Describe common management strategies for a patient who has developed ARDS
- Compare and contrast various adjunctive treatments used in the management of ARDS
Articles
- Ventilation with Lower Tidal Volumes as Compared with Traditional Tidal Volumes for Acute Lung Injury and the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Prone Positioning in Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Lecture
Quiz
ARDS
Bowel Obstruction and Ileus
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Objectives
- Define and describe the pathophysiology, causes, clinical features, treatment including operative indications, and post operative care of both small and large bowel obstructions.
- Discuss the critical care concerns and treatment of patients with small and large bowel obstructions, including institutional policies and protocols and learn how to apply this information in your everyday practice in the ICU.
- Recognize the causes, clinical features, associated with ileus and colonic pseudo obstruction.
- Articulate the proper treatment and identify possible complications associated with ileus and pseudo obstruction formation, most specifically post operative ileus and oglive’s syndrome.
Articles
- A protocol for the management of adhesive small bowel obstruction
- Large bowel obstruction in the adult: classic radiographic and CT findings, etiology, and mimics
- Critical operative management of small bowel obstruction
- Gum chewing reduces postoperative ileus?
- Systematic review: acute colonic pseudo-obstruction
- Small bowel obstruction: A practical step-by-step evidence-based approach to evaluation, decision making, and management
Lecture
Quiz
Bowel Obstruction & Ileus
GI Bleed
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Articles
- International consensus recommendations on the management of patients with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Management of varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis
Lecture
Quiz
GI Bleed
Burn and Inhalation Injuries
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Objectives
- Classify burn size appropriately and understand the importance of doing so.
- Articulate the pathophysiology of burn and inhalation injury.
- Describe the management of burn patients with an emphasis on thermal burns and inhalation injury I adult patients.
- Recite the principles of fluid resuscitation.
- Review the UF Health fluid resuscitation protocol
Articles
- Acute and perioperative care of the burn-injured patient
- Inhalation injury: Epidemiology, pathology, treatment strategies
Lecture
Quiz
Burn Management Quiz
Bleeding Brains
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Objectives
- Understand early management of brain injury
- Be able to describe severity of injury and prognosis with current scoring systems
- Learn how to manage increased intracranial pressures
- Be able to develop a plan to secure the airway of an acutely head injured patient
- Know reversal modalities in those with anticoagulant overdose complicated by intracranial bleeding
Articles
- The Acute Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Clinical Review
- Early management of severe traumatic brain injury
- Critical care management of severe traumatic brain injury in adults
Lecture
Quiz
Bleeding Brains
Brain Death – Neuro Critical Care
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Objectives
- Learn how to determine brain death.
- List and understand the parameters to determine clinical brain death.
- Be able to list the criteria to perform an apnea test.
- List and understand the parameters that make an apnea test positive.
Articles
- International guideline development for the determination of death
- Brain Death Determination: UF Health Policy
Lecture
Quiz
Brain Death
Status Epilepticus
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Objectives
- Define status epileptics and its various sub-types
- Review various medications used in the treatment of status epilepticus along with common side effects and complications of each
- Describe an appropriate management strategy for the treatment of status epileptics within the ICU
- Briefly discuss other non-pharmacological therapeutic measures for severe or refractory and superrefractory status epilepticus
Articles
- The relative effectiveness of five antiepileptic drugs in treatment of benzodiazepine-resistant convulsive status epilepticus: A meta-analysis of published studies
- Treatment of Established Status Epilepticus
Lecture
Quiz
Status Epilepticus Quiz
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections & Necrotizing Fasciitis
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